Umán Municipality is one of the 106
municipalities
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in the
Mexican state of
Yucatán
Yucatán (, also , , ; yua, Yúukatan ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Yucatán,; yua, link=no, Xóot' Noj Lu'umil Yúukatan. is one of the 31 states which comprise the federal entities of Mexico. It comprises 106 separate mun ...
containing (234.30 km
2) of land and located roughly 15 km southwest of the city of
Mérida.
The word "Umán" means “purchase” in the
Yucatec Maya language
Yucatec Maya (; referred to by its speakers simply as Maya or as , is one of the 32 Mayan languages of the Mayan language family. Yucatec Maya is spoken in the Yucatán Peninsula and northern Belize. There is also a significant diasporic com ...
.
History
There is no accurate data on when the town was founded, though it existed before the
conquest
Conquest is the act of military subjugation of an enemy by force of arms.
Military history provides many examples of conquest: the Roman conquest of Britain, the Mauryan conquest of Afghanistan and of vast areas of the Indian subcontinent, t ...
and in antiquity belonged to the chieftainship of Ah Canul.
At colonization, Umán became part of the
encomienda system with Francisco Hernández recorded as one of the earliest encomenderos.
Yucatán declared its independence from the Spanish Crown in 1821 and in 1825, the area was assigned to the Lower Camino Real with its headquarters in
Hunucma Municipality. In 1921, was designated as its own municipality.
Governance
The municipal president is elected for a three-year term. The town council has nine councilpersons, who serve as Secretary and councilors of heritage and sports, policing, education and health, public works, potable water, rural development and social management, roads and markets, nomenclature and recruiting, ecology, public monuments.
Communities
The head of the municipality is
Umán
Umán is a city in the Mexican state of Yucatán and the municipal seat of the Umán Municipality, municipality of the same name. Together with Kanasín, it is part of the Mérida metropolitan area. According to the 2020 census, it had a populati ...
, Yucatán. There are 87 populated areas of the municipality.
The most notable include Bolón, Dzibikak, Dzununcán, Itzincab, Oxcum, Oxholón, Poxilá, San Antonio Mulix, Tebec, Xtepen, and Yaxcopoil. The significant populations are shown below:
Local festivals
Every year from 13 to 15 September the town holds a celebration for the Christ of Love.
Tourist attractions
* The ex-convent and Church of St. Francis of Assisi, built in the eighteenth century
* Archaeological sites at Bolon, Hotzus and Kizil
*
Hacienda Xtepén
* Hacienda
Yaxcopoil Hacienda Yaxcopoil (YASH-coh-poh-EEL) is a town and hacienda located near Mérida in the Umán Municipality, Yucatán, Mexico. Hacienda Yaxcopoil dates back to the 17th century, the name Yaxcopoil means "the place of the green alamo trees" in the ...
References
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Municipalities of Yucatán